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Show details for Monday September 27th, 2010

Posted by themonitor on September 27, 2010

Our guests this week are Danny Schechter and Joshua Kors

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Danny Schechter

Danny Schechter  is an Emmy award winning journalist, television producer and independent filmmaker who also writes, blogs and speaks about media issues. He joins us tonight to talk about Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Protection Bureau.

Article: Elizabeth Warren In Office – But Not In Power

Website: The News Dissector

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Joshua Kors

Joshua Kors is an investigative reporter for The Nation, where he covers military and veterans’ issues. Mark Bebawi spoke to him on Saturday about his article “Disposable Soldiers -  How the Pentagon is Cheating Wounded Vets”

Article: Disposable Soldiers -  How the Pentagon is Cheating Wounded Vets

Website: joshuakors.com

Links mentioned in the interview: http://disposablewarriors.com/ , Facebook page and http://stoppersonalitydisorder.com/


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Texans game

Posted by themonitor on September 27, 2010

Yesterday I went to the Texans v Cowboys game. A few observations:

  • The NFL is very good at controlling their product
  • The Texans treat the media very well
  • Cowboys fans are pretty obnoxious
  • The Texans are not for real…yet

I would offer a game review but I didn’t want read the multiple pages of conditions attached to putting game descriptions online but I can say this: If the Texans can’t figure out how to score from inside the 5 they’re not going to do well this year. It actually looked like the teams had undergone a personality transplant during the week because all the Cowboys’ issues seemed to have been taken over by the Texans and vice versa.

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Show details for Monday September 20th, 2010

Posted by themonitor on September 20, 2010

Our sole guest for tonight’s show is Reese Erlich. The balance of the show will be taken up with headlines and your calls. Give us a call on 713 526 5738 to comment on our interview with Reese, any of the headlines mentioned or whatever else is on your mind – try to keep it relevant to news, the media and other topics The Monitor usually deals with.

Reese Erlich:

Reese Erlich‘s history in journalism goes back 42 years. He first worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts, an investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco from 1963 to 1975. Today he works as a full-time print and broadcast, freelance reporter. He reports regularly for National Public Radio, CBC, ABC (Australia), Radio Deutche Welle and Market Place Radio. His articles appear in the SF Chronicle and Dallas Morning News. His television documentaries have aired on PBS stations nationwide.

Reese joins us tonight to talk about elections in Afghanistan.
More about Reese:

Erlich’s book, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You co-authored with Norman Solomon, became a best seller in 2003. The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis was published in 2007. Dateline Havana: The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba was published in 2009. His latest book, Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence and Empire, was published this month.

Erlich shared a Peabody Award in 2006 as a segment producer for Crossing East, a radio documentary on the history of Asians in the US. In 2004 Erlich’s radio special “Children of War: Fighting, Dying, Surviving,” won a Clarion Award presented by the Alliance for Women in Communication and second and third place from the National Headlines Awards. His article about the U.S. use of

Website:

www.reeseerlich.com

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Show details for Monday September 13, 2010

Posted by themonitor on September 13, 2010

Tonight’s Guests – Tod Fletcher and Stephen Zunes

Tod Fletcher:

Tod Fletcher is a 911 blogger and has worked with David Ray Griffin on several of his most recent books, including the just published “Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory.”

We will talk with Tod about David’s new book.

Tod Fletcher’s blog | 911Blogger.com

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Stephen Zunes

Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. He recently wrote this article Harry Reid’s Anti-Islamic Agenda

We talk with him about the content and the larger theme of ‘moral bankruptcy of the Democratic Party’

Stephen Zunes


Posted in Afghanistan, CIA, Democrat Corruption, GOP Corruption, Sept. 11, 2001: Repercussions, The "War on Terror" | Leave a Comment »

Show Details for Monday, September 6th 2010

Posted by themonitor on September 6, 2010

This week’s guests are Joel Brinkley and Gareth Porter. We will talk with both about their most recent articles (linked below) as well as other topics, as time allows. Feel free to post comments.

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Joel Brinkley

Joel Brinkley is the Hearst Visiting Professional in Residence at Stanford University. Brinkley joined the Department of Communication in the fall of 2006 after a 23-year career with The New York Times. There, he served as a reporter, editor and Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent.

At Stanford, Brinkley writes an op-ed column on foreign policy that appears in about 50 newspapers and Websites in the United States and around the world each week, syndicated by Tribune Media Services. His areas of research include American foreign policy and the future of the nation’s newspaper industry.

Recent article by Brinkley:
Afghanistan’s Dirty Little Secret
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Gareth Porter


Gareth Porter is an American historian, investigative journalist and policy analyst on U.S. foreign and military policy. A strong opponent of U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, he has also written on the potential for diplomatic compromise to end or avoid wars in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Iraq and Iran. He is the author of a history of the origins of the Vietnam War, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam

Recent article by Porter:

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